אוּץʼûwts
press, be pressed, make haste
Pronunciation: oots · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H213
Meanings
Qal
1. press, hasten (Exodus 5:13)
2. be pressed, confined, narrow (Joshua 17:15)
3. hasten, make haste (Joshua 10:13; Proverbs 28:20; Jeremiah 17:16)
Hiph`il: hasten (Genesis 19:15; Isaiah 22:4)
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
- Exodus 5:13 Meanwhile, the Egyptian slave drivers continued to push hard. “Meet your daily quota of bricks, just as you did when we provided you with straw!” they demanded.
- Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.
- Joshua 17:15 Joshua replied, “If there are so many of you, and if the hill country of Ephraim is not large enough for you, clear out land for yourselves in the forest where the Perizzites and Rephaites live.”
- Proverbs 19:2 Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes.
- Proverbs 21:5 Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).